Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Innsbruck

2008-05-01

1938

I have - I am in 1938, I was six years old, I have been enrolled in the spring in the elementary school of the Sisters of Mercy. As my older siblings were already in primary school. And in autumn there have been no more this school. The sister had been driven and I am then came into the public school. This was because in the Sillgasse. Even for half a year, then were already so many wounded that the school has become the hospital and we are located, was then in the Siebererstraße. I have - the parents have never spoken much about politics with our children. It was also very dangerous. But I felt intuitively, since runs something that my parents do not agree. First, the nuns who were no longer there. And what is now as often shown on television - all of Austria where Hitler cheered too - yes, cheered, which you can film. But the many who have sat at the radio and prayed with Schuschnigg, "God protect Austria" - these were many. As my parents were there. The man did not shoot and can not be from those discussed today. This is only half the truth that is spoken there. The other half of the truth, which you can not film and that's why we hear nothing of it. It has long been hailed not all of Austria to Hitler. I've seen six year old child.